The Nassau County District Attorney’s Office is notifying nearly 300 inmates in local and upstate prisons suggesting they contact their attorneys or local legal associations if they believe the recent closure of the Nassau County Police Department’s troubled crime lab might affect their case. District Attorney Kathleen Rice sent the letters, which began arriving on Wednesday, to 244 inmates in upstate prisons and 39 inmates now held in Nassau County jail. In it, she recaps the series of events leading to the Feb. 18 closure and the subsequent re-testing of felony drug cases back to 2008 and blood alcohol cases back to 2006.

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